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New Delhi: Economic Survey’s recommendation to amend the Companies Act to lower govt shareholding floor to 26% in state-owned companies, can help govt mop up higher non-tax capital receipts (revenues from disinvestments), the Centre’s top economist said Friday.“In all these years, govt was very clear that the markets are performing very well and it wanted…
MUMBAI: Indians’ love for gold is ever shining but the steep prices of the yellow metal over the past several quarters have nudged consumers to find ways to ease burden on their pockets while keeping the heft and appeal of jewellery intact. For instance, consumers are buying less of new gold but instead recycling or…
Budgets are like car launches: most years you only get tweaks – maybe a new grille – while others bring a generation change. For middle class, last year’s Budget with revised tax slabs was of the second type. Yet, markets remained cold. Nifty in fact shed 150 points. This year’s Budget, expectedly, is of the…
India’s cloud is not only virtual — it is increasingly physical, resource-intensive and expanding at an extraordinary pace. As digital adoption deepens, artificial intelligence scales, and businesses shift relentlessly to cloud-based operations, the country is experiencing a wave of hyperscale and colocation data-centre construction unlike anything seen before. These facilities have quietly become the invisible…
Government jobs remain among the most coveted career options in India. Coaching centres flourish, online study platforms thrive, and families invest significant time, money and hope in the belief that their children will secure what is often seen as the ultimate prize: a stable government job.Yet, behind this aspiration lies a striking contradiction. Every year,…
Former Trump advisor and MAGA bigwig Steve Bannon has called for a complete halt to immigration into the United States for a decade, arguing that the system is too corrupt to be fixed through limited reforms.Speaking on his War Room show, Bannon said the proposal goes far beyond ending the H-1B visa programme. “So this…
A district court in the Netherlands has sentenced a Syrian national to 26 years in prison for crimes against humanity, including the torture and rape of detainees held by forces loyal to former country’s president Bashar al-Assad during the country’s civil war.The man, identified only as Rafiq al Q under Dutch privacy regulations, was convicted…
The Trump administration has reached a settlement that permanently bars the US government from pursuing current tax claims against President Donald Trump, his sons and the Trump Organisation as part of Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.According to a one-page document posted on the Justice…
Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan were seen attending the annual day function at Aaradhya Bachchan‘s school. Grandfather Amitabh Bachchan was also seen at the event to cheer for his granddaughter. It’s a ritual of sort every year that one sees Big B along with Abhishek and Aishwarya for the annual day function. Later, the…
Benjamin Franklin is among one of the most influential figures of the 18th century, who is remembered not only as a Founding Father of the United States but also as a thinker whose ideas continue to resonate across centuries. Born in 1706 in Boston, Franklin rose from modest beginnings to become a printer, writer, scientist,…
